March 27, Wednesday.
Before they knew it, they had already spent ten days studying on exchange at Jianzhang No. 1 High School. Only four days remained before the exchange program ended.
Today, Chen Shi'an, Lin Meng Qiu, Wen Zhixia, and Yao Jingyan from Yunqi No. 1 High School would take Jianzhang No. 1 High School's end-of-month exam alongside Yuan Xuan and the others.
This monthly exam would also be the final battle of their exchange visit.
Jianzhang No. 1 High School had a history of nearly eighty years and was the province's best-known key high school. At least thirty or forty of its students got into Yanning and Qinghe every year, and its academic performance stood in a league of its own among the province's high schools.
Students taking the high school entrance exam in Yunchuan Province considered it an honor to get into Jianzhang No. 1 High School. After all, it meant that, at worst, they could attend a first-tier university in the future;
The other high schools in the province also used Jianzhang No. 1 High School's teaching as a model. Its exam papers and review materials were widely recognized throughout the province as the standard closest to the actual college entrance exam.
It was no wonder that when so many teachers and students heard Chen Shi'an's, Wen Zhixia's, and Lin Meng Qiu's scores, their first reaction was to wonder whether Yunqi No. 1 High School's questions were easier or its grading more lenient.
Chen Shi'an knew little about this broader background. After all, he had only attended school for a little over half a year.
But the three girls knew. Never mind Yuan Xuan and Meng Song wondering whether Yunqi No. 1 High School's questions were easier and its grading more lenient-even the three girls themselves couldn't